Previous DayRE: Nokia cuts jobs
Talkback "We will have the richest and the most interactive platform for the developers," Well you'd have thought they would have argued from the "we have the most handsets" but no? Interesting that. The...
Emails suggest Home Office colluded with Phorm
Blog Emails obtained by the BBC appear to suggest some level of collusion between Phorm, the 'behavioural' ad-targeting firm that conducted trials on BT customers without first informing them, and the...
Blunkett: Digital Britain will increase security risks
News Speaking to ZDNet UK at the Infosecurity 2009 conference, David Blunkett says the provision of universal broadband for all will bring more cybercrime activity
Businesses urged to plan for Digital Britain
Blog Nigel Brown, the lead for resilient telecommunications strategy at the Cabinet Office, told ZDNet UK at the Infosec 2009 conference on Tuesday that businesses should perform risk assessments to...
Tech giants form open-cloud-standards group
News Companies including AMD, Cisco, Citrix, EMC, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Novell, Red Hat, Sun and VMware are to develop open standards for private and public cloud interoperability
IBM-Brocade deal steps up Cisco rivalry
Analysis IBM is partnering with Brocade, a smaller Cisco rival, to take on the networking giant in its core market
A taste of Android 'Cupcake' from the Magic phone
Photo ZDNet UK has been given a sneak preview of Vodafone's exclusive HTC Magic handset, the first to use the updated 'Cupcake' version of the Android mobile platform
'Physical dimension' of net raises security concerns
News As the use of technologies such as RFID increases, more everyday objects become connected to computing infrastructure, potentially leading to security issues
.why not use Linux and VirtualBox to run XP?
Talkback This is the logical solution. I have a friend who has done this for the small company he works for. They run Ubuntu Linux, with XP on a virtual box, and it makes everyone happy, except Redmond.
Beware Olympic cybercrime chaos, says Blunkett
News Speaking at the Infosecurity Europe 2009 conference, former home secretary David Blunkett tells ZDNet UK that attacks are taking place but not being talked about
Not Such A Vine Idea
Blog Not content with failing miserably with the Zune. Not Happy at failing the search field against Google. Not content not being able to get their touch screen device into a box the size of a table....
Think tank urges co-ordinated cybercrime response
News International-affairs think tank Chatham House says the government should pool and disseminate knowledge to tackle cyberthreats
Experimenting with Alternate Desktop Managers
Blog I have been recently been looking into desktop managers other than Gnome and KDE. Of course, there are Ubuntu distributions with different desktop managers, including the "standard" Gnome, Kubuntu...
Samsung B2700: photos
Photo If your work or home life is of the outdoor/active type, you'll need a mobile phone to match. Samsung's B2700 has a number of appealing features, including excellent battery life.
RE:Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Final Release
Blog Comment If you are considering only Ubuntu releases, this is now quite easy, and I have done it a number of times - for example, this is how I have tried out UNR (Netbook Remix) several times. In the...
Businesses warned: Don't try to resist the cloud
News Speaking at the RSA Conference, Qualys's chairman said while the cloud may still have unresolved security issues, resisting the technology is not an option
Android 1.5 SDK made available for download
News With Android 1.5, the open-source mobile-phone operating system is gradually maturing, and so are the programming tools central to creating software for it
RE:Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Final Release
Blog Comment "- I always make a fresh installation of a new release, I do NOT try to upgrade an existing installtion" ah, I was going to ask you about this if you hadn't specifically mentioned it! I DL'd the...
Seven Steps to Heaven & Five to the Cloud
Blog Back in the eighties I worked on a magazine called Jazz FM that followed the radio station of the same name. I can’t abide jazz to be honest, but I did keep hold of one album from that era by...
Mozilla releases Firefox 3.5 beta
News The open-source browser takes another step towards a final release of version 3.5, with what is expected to be the final beta
i-mate JAMA
Member Review First of all the touchscreen started to hang after 2-3 months, at the beginning was once a day then 2/3 times and now it is almsot every hour! fortunately it can recover by a soft reset. Then a few...
